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GRUFFUDD HAFREN (fl. c. 1600), poet (presumably of Montgomeryshire) of whose work many examples remain in manuscripts. These include poems to various members of the families of Gogerddan (Llanstephan MS 118 (376)), Llyweni (NLW MS 6494D (29, 44), NLW MS 6495D (64), NLW MS 6496C (281b)) apparently in the poet's own handwriting), and Henllys in Pembrokeshire (Llanstephan MS 133 (773)). He wrote two cywyddau in praise of Dr. John
GRUFFYDD ap GWENWYNWYN (bu farw 1286), lord of Upper Powys lordship of the family lands in Arwystli, Cyfeiliog, Mawddwy, Caereinion, Y Tair Swydd, and Upper Mochnant. Sometime before this decisive moment in his career, he had married Hawise, daughter of John Lestrange of Knockin. Steadfast in his loyalty to the Crown during the first decade of Llywelyn II's rise to power, he suffered a renewed loss of patrimony and a second exile in 1257. With evident reluctance
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family Richard ap Howel of Mostyn; by this marriage he was the father of Alice 'ferch Gruffydd ap Ieuan,' a poetess. It was by his second marriage, with Alice, daughter of John Owen of Llansantffraid, that he became the ancestor of the Griffith family of Garn and Plasnewydd. For some of the family connections see the articles in this dictionary on Davies (of Llannerch), and Davies-Cooke (of Gwysaney) and
GRUFFYDD ap LLYWELYN (bu farw 1244), prince Natural son of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth by Tangwystl, daughter of Llywarch Goch of Rhos. He was born sometime before his father's marriage to Joan in 1206. The first reference to him is as one of the hostages handed over to John in 1211; he was still a prisoner in August 1213, but was released as part of the general settlement of 1215. Irresponsible and headstrong, Gruffydd openly resented the fact
GRUFFYDD, THOMAS (1815 - 1887), one of the best known harpists of his period Born at Llangynidr, Brecknock, grandson of the rector of that parish. The fact that he lost his sight at an early age did not hinder his progress. A pupil of John Wood Jones, family harpist at Glanbran near Llandovery, he subsequently occupied a similar position at Llanover, Monmouth. Most of his life, apparently, was spent in Llanover, where he also kept a smallholding. He won the triple harp in
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor Born at Gorffwysfa, Bethel, Caernarfonshire, 14 February 1881, son of John and Jane Elisabeth Griffith. He was educated at Bethel elementary school and Caernarfon County School, where he was one of the first entrants when the school was opened in 1894. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1899, and read English Literature. In 1904 he was appointed Assistant Master at Beaumaris Grammar School, and
GRYFFYTH, JASPER (bu farw 1614), cleric, warden of Ruthin hospital, chaplain to archbishop Bancroft, collector of manuscripts proved 28 May, and he was buried in the chancel of Hinckley parish church, 25 May. He names his wife, Mary, his son Bartholomew, and his daughters Elizabeth, Marye, and Anne, with a suggestion that the children were minors. His wife was a daughter of John Roberts of Park, Llanfrothen. In a letter to Sir Robert Cotton, 1613, Jasper Gryffyth lists forty Latin manuscripts in his possession, and other
teulu GUEST, iron-masters, coal owners, etc. SIR JOSIAH JOHN GUEST (1785 - 1852), iron-master, colliery proprietor and M.P. Business and Industry Politics, Government and Political Movements Son of THOMAS GUEST (died 1807), iron-master, Dowlais, and grandson of JOHN GUEST (1722 - 1785), who came from Broseley, Salop, to manage the small iron-works at Dowlais in 1759, and by 1782 had obtained some shares in the Dowlais Iron Company. Thomas
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector John Guest, twenty-one year old Lady Charlotte married him in 1833. He was a widower and ran the vast Dowlais Iron Company that was fast becoming the largest ironworks in the world, employing about 7,000 workers. Lady Charlotte had disliked her step-father, the Reverend Peter Pegus, and viewed her move to Wales as a providential escape. She interested herself in the business, took a keen and active
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales third husband, John ap Morrice of Betws-yn-Rhos. Gwen is identified in the transcript of her trial as his 'supposed wife'. Gwen ferch Ellis was a cloth spinner, who was well-known in the community for practising the art of healing using charms, 'salves, drinke and plasters', for which people compensated her with wool, corn, butter, and other items which constituted her main source of income
GWENWYNWYN (bu farw 1216), lord of Powys forces which had recurrently in the past kept Powys from achieving anything more than a fleeting pre-eminence among the native dynasties of Wales. Two attacks on marcher territory between the Wye and the Severn were disastrous for him, and on the second occasion, in 1208, he was deprived by king John of all his lands. Though restored by John in 1210, continuous pressure from Llywelyn the Great forced
GWILYM TEW (fl. c. 1460-1480), one of the bards of Glamorgan ; this explains why he wrote an awdl enghreifftiol (a 'pattern' or 'exemplifying' awdl), wherein he uses measures that were not acknowledged by the old teachers, the 'ofer fesurau' ('false measures') as they were described. And that is the awdl which John David Rhys includes in his Grammar (1592) as an exemplar of the odes of the 'first age.' It was not with bardic verse alone that Gwilym Tew concerned

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